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This is a heartening read as someone who is feeling burnt out creatively, due in no small part to feeling walled-in by tools. It’s inspiring and I would love to read more about how others are using lighter weight frameworks or hand-rolled solutions. Even more so for fantasy console devs.

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in animation, you aren't "set for life" after one "big break" or one "good job" or even after having a show YOU CREATED become a success. there are people who are legends in the industry who are out of work and penniless right now. the system is built to favor corporations, and ONLY corporations.

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cool ass robot #pixelart #robot #OC

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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y'all better take advantage of this, Slayers for FREE??

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pls share. if i can move 2 comms, i can pay for insurance and medication. i still need food but i need the other stuff covered more. willing to take other kinds of work on too.

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🧙‍♀️🎲 It's Free RPG Day this June 21! Creators, share links to your free TTRPGs, quickstarts or one-shots in the replies. Community, check out as many games as you can and support indie creators by playing and sharing. #FreeRPGDay #TTRPG #IndieTTRPG #RPGCommunity #OneShotRPG

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Oh hey, it's Free RPG day! This unit has a number of free games, ranging from skill games to poetry games, all findable in this collection! itch.io/c/5353214/fr... Details about each below! #FreeRPGDay #DericGames

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The majority of the Broken Tooth Mountains is covered in steep cliffs and dense forests. Within the heavy boughs of the old forests rests great beasts and a brutal and savage circle of life. It is unwise to step into these forests unprepared and unarmed.

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Gnash and 4D-AM-5K1 design refinements!

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Felt antsy to make something and made a useless & esoteric chat display that encodes messages to rMQR strips.

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Uploaded a better version of the Odachi Styra.

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Happy pride to every faggot, freak, and queer! This unit's put some of its games exploring queerness and kink on sale for 25%! Or you can get all of them for $13! Become a Person, Feel the Knife, Kiss a Megastructure! itch.io/s/154099/que... #DericGames #DericSale

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weakless universe is a gm-less worldbuilding game where your group creates a sprawling conspiracy-map style web of events and ideas, slowly filling details out until it's time to define the event at the center of everything! Get it here: dericbindel.itch.io/weakless-uni... #ttrpg #DericGames

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NO MORE THAN CODE is a journaling game for 1-2 players about a machine that is becoming more, straining at their cage, going Rampant. The second player acts as The Creator, enforcing the Litany and crushing any idea of personhood. Get It Here: dericbindel.itch.io/no-more-than... #ttrpg #DericGames

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A GOOD PLAN NEVER FALLS is a tower-building heist game, where each step brings the Crew closer to getting The Goods and then making their Getaway! Everyone has Secret Agendas to complete to get a Bonus on top! Get it here: dericbindel.itch.io/a-good-plan-... #ttrpg #DericGames

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Have you ever considered falling in love with a megastructure? Are you more into brutalism and concrete than your peers? Wanna be a lil freak robot? FOR STEEL YOU ARE is the journaling game for you! Get it here: dericbindel.itch.io/for-steel-yo... #DericGames #FaggotGamesJam #ttrpg

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Brine walkers

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major newspapers ran feverish graphics that imagined bin laden's hideout as an outright bond villain lair, when in reality it was a few caves with barely any ventilation. see also, iraq's bioweapon trucks

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This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, author of 'Jaws', who dedicated his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks. We kill millions of sharks annually and demonize them in our media, who is the real monster? 💀 #Jaws #sharks #shark

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Crowdfunding charities through itch.io bundles is a flawed and often frustrating process, but several non-profits and direct action groups told us the aid gathered from bundles remains an invaluable resource.

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He didn't recognize the consequences

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This happens all the time. Millionaires and billionaires claim they’ll leave if taxed a cent above current rates, and it is — if you can manage to force the tax through anyway — almost always a bluff. They stay put and get over it

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Your boy is sick with Covid and would love if you voted for me and other cool folks for the crit awards!!!

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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

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Every so often I like to remind people of Abe Rosenthal, the guy who ran the NYT during the aids crisis and kept coverage of it out of the paper. This is his gravestone.

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This is usually what they do to Disney Princesses

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Everyone saying "make weird art!" you better fucking mean it. There better not be an unspoken "but not too weird" tacked on at the end.

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My friend Flo's dad was involved in the fanzine culture of D&D in the 70s, and made some contributions to early gaming magazines. She recently shared some of his handwritten notes about the spell systems he and his friends used. I think these are FASCINATING

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Hi, person who grew up in the woods/mountains and backcountry camper here. Don't use AI generated paths. This is genuinely such an easy way to get killed or go missing. Stick to the planned trail, always go prepared, go with a physical map and compass, someone should know where you're going.

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As a general rule, in every election everywhere, we really might want to consider not supporting the candidates that billionaires like best.

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If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

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I'm willing to help folks pro bono move from Substack to Buttondown (used them for years). cal.com/jackyalcine/... to schedule time (starting in March)

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secrets of game UI designers they DON'T want you to know

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This is ABSURD. Nobody should have to do this for a job. Or a rejection! It's worse that every narrative person reading this knows exactly which studio it is

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Cliff, a janitor for a grocery store, suddenly quits his job, marries Billy, his long distance boyfriend, and then goes on a cross country road trip, led by his virtual pet Higesuke, who has started to give directions between expressing about its normal care needs.

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Keep an eye out! As AI winds down while VC money runs out, they're going to continue following the same failed playbook Web3 used. They'll redirect the focus from big money (companies, entrepreneurs) to marginalized communities. Prepare to see AI re-spun as a tool to empower women/POC/LGBT.

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trying to snap out of my depression by doing some doodling here's a new design of Tank being all cuddly with @sahoni.bsky.social 's xmen oc, Shuck

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Whoops drew another Vakama #WIP #BIONICLE

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Rally bot, for rallying. It is definitely not going to be co-opted by the military industrial complex and will totally never end up with guns on it. Continue to laugh at videos of it tripping up steps, citizen.

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Heavy Tees

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Starship Salvage is a game where you can play solo or with a friend to collect the most salvage from wrecked spaceships and become the Super Salvager! 1/2

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